NEW: Macbeth

**Reimagining Shakespeare’s tragedy, students use set design to show how atmosphere and mood shape Macbeth.** Drawing on the *Macbeth* VR experience, a selection of 3D model props, and some Eduverse AI-generated 360° images, students explore how atmosphere, mood and symbolism can be translated into set design. These digital tools serve as inspiration for developing innovative set designs that reflect the play’s themes of ambition, power and fate. **Age range** The primary target age range for this experience is ages 11 to 14; however, the teaching ideas are easily adaptable for the 14 to 16 age group. **Curriculum Summary*** **Theater & English Language Arts: Set Design – Ages 11 to 14** Students should be taught to: - Explore how setting, atmosphere, and characterization affect meaning in texts and performances. - Understand how design elements such as scenery, props, costumes, lighting, and sound contribute to mood and storytelling. - Work collaboratively to plan and present creative interpretations that communicate ideas to an audience. **Learning Objectives** - Explain how atmosphere and mood are shown in a chosen scene and apply these ideas in a set design. - Describe the link between props or costumes and the play’s characters or themes. - Create and justify a set design for a scene in Macbeth. **Key Vocabulary** - **Atmosphere**: The overall feeling or mood created, such as scary, tense or mysterious. - **Symbolism**: When an object, color, or design choice stands for a bigger idea, like red representing passionate emotions like love. - **Prop**: An object used by actors onstage, such as a sword, crown or cauldron. - **Costume**: The clothing worn by an actor to show a character’s personality, status or role. - **Set**: The scenery, furniture, and background that show where the play is happening. ## How to Use This Playlist: This playlist inspires students to explore set design, showing how staging, scenery, costumes and props bring Macbeth and might change the audience's interpretation of the story or characters. **Teaching Ideas** Here are some suggestions on how to use the resources: ***Macbeth Explorable Scene*** - Use the visuals from the VR scenes as inspiration for designing and critically analyzing a key moment within Macbeth. Students can consider how atmosphere and mood have been used in each scene and use these design choices to motivate their own creative interpretations. **The Macbeth Explorable Scene includes a full Literature/Theater Arts Teaching Framework with curriculum links, adaptive teaching ideas and extension activities. The framework can be used across a single lesson or developed into a longer teaching sequence.** - [Macbeth Explorable Scene](track#735632) ***Macbeth 3D Models*** - Every prop in Shakespeare's Macbeth plays an important role in helping audiences connect to the characters, atmosphere and themes of the play. Use these 3D models to help students visualize what they might want to include in their versions. - Macbeth Diorama - Lady Macbeth Costume - Cauldron (Animated) - Medieval Castle ***Eduverse AI 360° Image*** - Use EduverseAI to explore settings and guide your students in generating verbal prompts that will inspire visual immersive environments for their set designs. Encourage students to think critically about the scene by refining their ideas, justifying design choices, and exploring multiple interpretations of either a key moment within the play or a historical period. **You will need an Eduverse+ subscription to access these resources.** Some sample prompts include: 1. Basic: Create a set design for the story of Macbeth 2. Extended: Make a futuristic version of a spooky scene from Macbeth. Keep the themes of lightning and storms, but instead of a cauldron, imagine a high-tech energy orb, a glowing holographic device, or a futuristic lab machine that they’re using to mix spells. Play with neon lights, sparks, and stormy skies to make it dramatic and mysterious. For whole-class teaching, these ideas can be adapted to any number of VR headsets by rotating them between groups, while other students access the content on laptops or tablets via the portal - [Macbeth](track#735632) **Our Curriculum Summary offers a simplified and progressive best-fit framework derived from a thorough analysis of multiple curricula worldwide, including those from the US, UK, and the rest of the world. By identifying key common strands, we create curriculum statements that align and map smoothly across all territories, ensuring relevance and consistency in diverse educational contexts. Further territory-specific curriculum libraries can be found on the ClassVR portal.*